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For 4,544 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Joe Versus the Volcano
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,927 out of 4544
  2. Mixed: 987 out of 4544
  3. Negative: 630 out of 4544
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  1. First Knight
    Whenever Zucker stops piling on battle scenes as if he were directing Braveheart, his film casts a romantic spell.
  2. Apollo 13
    Howard lays off the manipulation to tell the true story of the near-fatal 1970 Apollo 13 mission in painstaking and lively detail. It's easily Howard's best film.
  3. Pocahontas
    Disney deserves praise for raising the ante on its ambitions in animation. Next time, though, a little less civics lesson and a little more heart.
  4. Batman Forever
    Schumacher's method is to use a lighter touch, to stay closer to the cartoon that Bob Kane created for DC Comics in 1939 and to temper Burton's nightmare world with an accessible, brightly colored TV palette.
  5. Smoke
    A sharply observant and witty film that plumbs unexpected depths of feeling.
  6. Party Girl
    What makes it delicious fun is Posey, a party girl for the ages.
  7. Die Hard: With a Vengeance
    It's a tense, terrifically funny action dazzler with a wow level in special effects that will be hard to top.
  8. Amateur
    Amateur is Hartley heaven, a sharp-witted thriller that takes off into dark and uncharted territory.
  9. Crumb
    A brilliant chronicle of the life and twisted times of a most unlikely bad boy, a skinny, four-eyed, sex-obsessed misanthrope with no weapons to fire back at the society that rejected him save one: The nerd can draw.
  10. The Basketball Diaries
    [Kalvert] best serves the movie by simply focusing on DiCaprio, who communicates the spirit and blunt truth of the diaries even when the movie keeps trying to soften the blow.
  11. Kiss of Death
    Cage and Caruso strike sparks in this riveting piece of pulp fiction, but it’s that first Kiss you’ll remember.
  12. Bad Boys
    But the bad boys achieve something a budget can't buy: an easy, natural rapport that makes you root for them. For comedy and thrills, Lawrence and Smith are a dream team.
  13. Don Juan DeMarco
    What jump-starts the film is the casting of Johnny Depp as Don Juan and Marlon Brando as his shrink. They bring a playfully romantic touch to a drama that could have been dead weight in clumsier hands.
  14. Rob Roy
    You always know where it's going even as it meanders for two and a half hours getting there.
  15. Jefferson in Paris
    The team of producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory and writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala drops the ball with this droopy, snail-paced prigs-in-wigs movie.
  16. Dolores Claiborne
    Despite Bates' mastery at bringing unexpected depth to unhinged characters, Dolores is a few pints low on chills and challenge.
  17. Exotica
    Egoyan is an acquired taste, but once in, you’re hooked. Exotica is Egoyan’s most accomplished and seductive film to date — even tackling acute psychic distress, Egoyan’s deadpan comic eye never flinches.
  18. Circle of Friends
    Driver's tough core of honesty and wit is bewitching. So's the movie.
  19. Muriel's Wedding
    A crowd pleaser that spices a tired formula with genuine feeling.
  20. The Quick and the Dead
    Quick and the Dead plays like a crazed compilation of highlights from famous westerns. Raimi finds the right look but misses the heartbeat. You leave the film dazed instead of dazzled, as if an expert marksman had drawn his gun only to shoot himself in the foot.
  21. The Secret of Roan Inish
    Alive with beauty, spirit and wit, Roan Inish is pure magic.
  22. Legends of the Fall
    What makes Legends such an entertaining male weepie is the star shine. Though the admirable Quinn has the toughest role, Pitt carries the picture.
  23. Higher Learning
    Higher Learning is seriously intended and seriously flawed. Singleton tends to shout his objectives. But in an era of cop-out escapism, it is gratifying to find a filmmaker who is spoiling to be heard.
  24. The Madness of King George
    Comedy and tragedy cohere in this extraordinary film of Alan Bennett's play.
  25. Death and the Maiden
    Polanski, working from a fluid script by Dorfman and Rafael Yglesias ("Fearless"), gives the story its due. He creates an atmosphere of claustrophobic tension to rival his "Knife in the Water" and "Repulsion".
  26. Cobb
    Shelton's strong, stinging film — one of the year's best — wants to get at something ingrained in the American character: the irrational desire to make saints of sports heroes.
  27. Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
    The film wants to make a case for Parker as the first modern woman. It gets the look and the attitude right, but it can't find her heart.
  28. Junior
    Ah-nuld’s swollen belly is the joke — the only one — but director Ivan Reitman (Dave) takes it for a few deft spins.
  29. Heavenly Creatures
    Jackson’s visionary triumph, heightened by the blazing performances of Lynskey and Winslet and by Alun Bollinger’s whirling camera, is in capturing the delirium as the girls whip themselves into an erotic frenzy with Mario Lanza records, semi-naked dances in the woods and revenge fantasies.
  30. Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
    But for all its visionary brilliance, the movie version of Interview never lets us close enough to see ourselves in Louis. We're dazzled but unmoved.
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